Goodbye Space Shuttle Atlantis

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Originally uploaded by danni deer

Goodbye Space shuttle program. I had hoped to some day be one of the folks in the crowd, watching one of your shuttles race skyward. It is hard to believe that the United States will be without a a maned space vehicle.
Let's hope the private sector fills the void soon. Perhaps somewhat oddly, maned space flight seems to me, to be  a part of the american fabric. As a child of the post war boom, the amazing was the everyday in America.
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